Job Ref: 215151721

Date: 2021-11-12 16:03:24

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Digitalisation & IT Director
Competitive rates + car + bonus + excellent benefits package
A fantastic opportunity for an established people leader to join our executive team, here in the UK. As we move toward a more sustainable future, Scania GB are looking for a people leader within the IT sector to help us ‘drive the shift’, using IT as the enabler.
This is the highest IT leadership role for the enterprise and your objective is to deliver digital transformation across the Business Unit.
You will lead the journey towards digitalisation as a business enabler, as well as ensuring efficient IT Operations and a well-functioning Project Management Office (PMO). Making sure there are well defined, properly managed and widely known strategies, transformation roadmaps and portfolios for Digitalisation, IT and PMO. You will achieve your objectives by utilising the Scania leadership principles in a manner which is in line with our values and you will display, tenacity, resilience and agility as your pursue and deliver the key outcomes of digitalisation for the benefit of the whole organisation.
Tasks & Duties
* Lead the Digitalisation Department to ensure necessary conditions and structures are in place to support the digital transformation to lead the shift towards an integration of digitalisation as a business enabler
* Lead the IT Department to ensure necessary conditions and structures are in place, including governance, for efficient IT and IT department operations in the Business Unit
* Lead the Project Management Office by supporting portfolio and project managers through all project phases
* Build and lead the teams
* Systemise improvement work according to the Scania way
* Act as an ambassador and spokesman for the ‘Scania Driving the Shift Strategy’ and be the agent for creating and implementing smart ways of working
General Competencies
* Business perspective
* Customer understanding
* Managing people
* Managing resources
* Market understanding
* Teaching for differentiation
* Project management
Personal Competencies
* Confident communicator
* Creativity & innovation
* Inspiring others
* Leading change
* Planning and organising
* Thinking strategically
* Ensuring accountability
* Ability to use own initiative
Experience
* Experience ‘bringing people on the journey’
* Relationship building and stakeholder management – at a senior level
* Business knowledge and experience from a similar role (both Retail, IT and Digitalisation preferably)
* Managerial and leadership experience
* Experience with project/portfolio management and system developments, including external supplier management
* Fluent in English
Working for Scania is not just about the job. It’s about you too, and this is where the company goes the extra mile and provides an industry leading employment package.
Excellent benefits package including pension scheme, car, complementary life insurance, financial incentive schemes, discounts on major retail outlets including groceries. For a full breakdown of benefits; please visit our website and follow the careers link.
Scania is dedicated to delivering exceptional products and services to our customers and the successful candidate will reflect our core values; Customer First, Respect For The Individual, Determination, Integrity, Team Spirit and Quality in all we do.
If you feel you have the skills and expertise for this challenging role, then please apply today.
Scania (Great Britain) Ltd is an equal opportunities employer

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